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Laccaria amethystina, commonly known as the amethyst deceiver, or amethyst laccaria, [1] is a small brightly colored mushroom. Because its bright amethyst coloration fades with age and weathering, it becomes difficult to identify, hence the common name "deceiver".
The spore deposit is a light rusty saffron color. The spores have an elongated ellipsoid shape with a finely punctate (studded with punctures) to almost smooth surface, and measure 8.5–10 by 4.4 μm. The basidia (the spore-bearing cells) are 20–30 by 5–8 μm. [5] Fruit bodies of C. cinnamomeus are used in mushroom dyeing to produce a ...
Rice wrote the first modern book on the subject, [1] Let's Try Mushrooms for Color, which came out in 1974 and was an international success. [1] [5] Rice's second book, Mushrooms for Color (1980), included a much-expanded range of pigments developed in the intervening years, a whole color wheel, including greens, reds, blues, and violets. Other ...
The stipe is 4–11 cm (1 + 5 ⁄ 8 – 4 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) tall and 1–3 cm wide, [1] grandular dotted and the color is similar to the cap. [2] The cap is scaly and has fibrillose. The spores are brownish when they are young. [5] The spore print is dark olive brown to brown. [6] The species stains fingers blue. [7] It has no veil. [2]
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The margin often cracks star-like, particularly in dry weather. The mushroom is a pale azure violet to pale lilac color, soon bleaching and fading to tan brown or rusty brown. The cap is dry, silkily shiny or tomentose at the margin with membranaceous bronze fragments of the veil, the white fragments of which often adhere to the surface like ...
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